Thread by @kateneuropsych

@sxckMyDicx & t/suspicious looks & Qs you ROUTINLY get from docs pharmacists & INS comp who to the last one treat you like a CRIMINAL right out t/gate just about every month.
NOT ONE OF THEM UNDERSTANDS ADDICTION cuz if they did they'd know if I were an addict I wouldn't be at t/pharmacy
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@sxckMyDicx gettin a puny little script that wouldn't hold me more than 3-5 days (if that). Moreover THE PHARMACY CANT GIVE YOU MORE THAN ONE SCRIPT A MONTH insurance or out of pocket IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE cause it's a controlled substance (Iike if you are having that much of a
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@sxckMyDicx heart attack prescribing or filling the script look up controlled substance) so and doc shopping isn't even a possibility (not even if your purse gets stolen or your house burns down-are you getting a duplicate script you've already been given) and if there happened to
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@sxckMyDicx be 2 scripts for ADHD meds at the pharmacy THEY ARE ONLY FILLING ONE....I mean WTF and yet they hand out oxycodone and other highly addictive meds like it's effing candy BUT YOUR A CRIMINAL IF ITS ADHD meds.
Worse when you tell them to LOOK IN THE CHART OR AT YOUR RECORDED
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@sxckMyDicx HISTORY THEY GET MAD and write irritable in your chart (I have ZERO TOLERANCE for constructed beligerent stupidity from people making money off claiming to be smart w/your welfare in mind)
I've been struggling with all that over 30 years and you'd think one.. JUST ONE doc,
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@sxckMyDicx pharmacist or Ins comp COULD LOOK AT YOUR GD RECORDS/CHART to see you've got a clean history of the same meds month in month out with no asks for a higher dose and routine refills. This whole thing is a bunch of made up Bullsh!t and I'm frankly not sure why. And I've looked
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@sxckMyDicx at it from every angle but= 0 sense (and I'm very good at systems analysis) other than it gives a whole lot of folks Gov & LE jobs that keep them busy with sh!t that has very little to do with the "prevention of greater social harms" so that pharma can GO FOR DECADES making
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@sxckMyDicx profits off meds that take out a gen of primarily WP and veterans via mega widespread addiction to prescription meds with ODs reported daily (never in my life have I heard of an OD via Adderall) while making mega profits from drugs that ACTUALLY present a "greater social harm"
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@sxckMyDicx And I know I'm so not alone in this & am literally in the company of millions of folks that go through the same thing month to month or far too often. And all I can say is THIS IS WHAT CONSTRUCTED INSANITY LOOKS LIKE
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